Identifier: historyofallnati02wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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der of the wilderness, westwardfrom Babylon, as well as Cilicia and Dukha in the country of Tabal,obeyed the Assyrian. Esarhaddon marched now against Palestineand Egypt. The king of Sidon, Abdimilkut, had joined himselfwith Sandu-arri of Kundi and Sizu (Cilicia). Both were defeatedand put to death, and Sidon was destroyed. Eight Arabian sheiksof Bazu, on the other side of the wilderness, were slain. Yalu,the son of the Arab Hazael, had to pay tribute. The EthiopianTaharka, to whom the great rock-temple on )\Iount Barkal andnumerous buildings in Egypt owed their origin, regarded it as hismission to free Egypt from the menace of the ^Vssyrians. Heinduced, therefore, the rulers of the Syrian coast and of Cyprus toally themselves Avith him ; but, not the less, Esarhaddon was able,after the capture of Ascalon, to press forward into Egypt, and com-pletely to defeat the army of Taharka. The Pharaoh fled ; theAssyrian took possession of Memi)his and Thebes, where the temple 94 TUE SARGONIBAE.
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ASUniLlXIPALS CAMPAIGNS. 95 was plundered, and set twenty princelings — among them Necho ofSais—over Egypt. On tlie one cylinder Esarhaddon enumeratestwo and twenty tributary kings of the Syrian coast and islands,among them ten kings of Cyprus in the midst of the sea. Meanwhile Taharka again began to move, and the twenty princestook to flight. In 668 Esarhaddon publicly proclaimed his son, Asur-bauipal, as his successor, who, after his fathers deatii in the same year,continued the war with Egypt. His army marched, amid tokens ofhomage from the Syrian ))rinces, along the route to Egypt, and overthrewthe Ethiopian, carrying off the gods in whom he had trusted. Thetwenty princes were once more installed and their tribute heightened.Once more Taharka sought to drive forth the foe, and this time inconcert with the princes ; but the chiefs of the Assyrian garrisonscame on the trail of the conspiracy, made prisoners of some of theprinces, and wasted the land mercilessly. Asurbanipal coul

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